Hair-roll.



T. P. TAYLOR.

HAIR ROLL.

PPLIGATIQN FILED 11m27.190s.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

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provide a roll with UNITED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

THOMAS I). TAYLOR, OF BItIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

HAIR-ROLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed May 27, 1908. Serial No. 435,310.

to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to hair rolls, such as are commonly used by women in dressing their hair, the object of such devices being to give a pompadour or puff effect.

The object of my improvement is to provide a very simple and light device of this description, readily adjustable to the head of the wearer and economical in cost.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the arrangement of parts hereinafter fully set forth and then particularly pointed out in the claims which conclude this description.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is an elevation showing my improvement applied to a suitable hair roll-Fig 2 a cross section at the line a, m, of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a cross section illustrating my improvement applied to a form of roll slightly different from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

In my improvement I particularly aim to flexible elements bearing projections which shall normally have no contact with the roll except at the ends where said elements are secured to the roll,

and my improvement can therefore be utilj ized in connection with any suitable roll which will admit of its application.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the roll shown is the one which is illustrated and described in Letters Patent No. 882,655, issued to Henry I-I. Taylor, March 24, 1908, this style of roll having a body of the required fullness preferably made from woven wire and denoted by the numeral 1 while said fullness is maintained in permanency by means of a suitable backing 2 secured to the edges of the body 1 by means of an ordinary tape 3.

Referring to the construction shown at Figs. 1 and 2, my improvement as applied thereto comprises flexible strips Ll made from any suitable material such as rubber, leather,

&c., carrying flexible projections 5, the ends of these strips being secured to the lower side `portions of the roll that are bound by the tape 3 in such manner that the body of said strips depends below the backing 2 in arcu- 1 ate disposition. Rolls; and I do hereby declare the following Vhen the roll is applied to the head of the wearer the projections 5 will seat themselves against the scalp so as to hold the roll against l accidental displacement while the arcuately l disposed strips t will afford a yielding cushion contributing greatly to the comfort of the wearer of the roll. In instances where the scalp is exceedingly tender this arrangement of arcuately disposed strips carrying projections may be preferred to a const-ruction where the strips lie close against the comparatively unyielding back portion of the roll, and moreover, a hair roll constructed in accordance with my present improvement is not at all heating or uncomfortable when worn during the hot season.

Instead of attaching my improvement to a roll made as shown at Figs. 1 and 2 with a special backing, I can employ an ordinary braided wire roll G having its lower portion 7, which ordinarily seats against the head of the wearer, flattened, and the strips l can be secured at their ends to the side portions of this flattened part as shown at Fig. 3. In both styles of roll, however, the general shape in cross section is that of a segment of a circle, the circular portion affording the full ness of the roll while the chordal portion forms the bottom of the roll or that portion which seats upon the head of the wearer.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A hair roll comprising a body having the necessary fullness throughout its main portion and having its bottom portion comparatively flat, and flexible arcuately disposed strips arranged crosswise of said bottom portion and secured at their ends to the sides of the roll at the point where the main portion joins the bottom portion, said strips having no contact with any part of the roll except at their ends.

2. A hair roll comprising a body having the necessary fullness throughout its main f portion and having its bottom portion comparatively fiat, and flexible arcuately disposed strips arranged crosswise of said bot tom portion and secured at their ends to the Sider; of the roll :1t the point Where the main portion joins the bottom portion, Said strips carrying projections and normally having no contact with :my part of the roll except at their ends.

3. A hair roll having in cross Section the general shape of the segment of a cir-cle2 the circular part of Said segment forming the bulging or main body of the roll While the chordnl part of said Segment forms the bottom or seating portion of the roll, and flexible strips carrying crosswise of the roll projections and Secured to the side edges of said bottom portion :1nd having no normal com tact with Suid portion save at Said edges.

4. A hair roll comprising a, suitably shaped body7 and flexible strips carrying projections and depending in arcuate disposition belowv and zithwart said body, said Strips Secured at their ends to Said body.

ln testimony whereof I afix my Signature .in presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS I. TAYLOR.

fitnesses F. lV. SMITH, Jr., M. T. LONGDEN. 

